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Making Career Decisions from Your Highest Self vs. Ego
Ego-driven career decisions are a top reason why some people are successful yet unfulfilled. Once we take a road in life, we can never really know for certain where the other road may have led. What would we learn if we could see? Perhaps some things would be better and some things would be worse. […]
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3 Things To Do Over Winter Break If You Want to Land a New Job by Q2 2019
January is traditionally the biggest hiring month of the year. If you want to take advantage of it, you’d want to have your résumé and LinkedIn profile keyword optimized and branded to convert readers into excited employment prospects. If you haven’t gotten that far yet, hold the presses. Yes, of course, I think you […]
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When Do You Know You Have To Go To Plan B?
When do you know you have to go to Plan B? I’m not referring to Plan B in your methods to get into a company, as described in a previous post. Today I’m referring to when you know that you have to abandon your search for your ideal role and pursue a consolation job. Sadly, […]
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4 Things You Can Do on LinkedIn to Attract Recruiters
(Upcoming posts: How To Handle Recruiters Wanting To Connect, How To Deal With Trolls Now That You’ve Gone Viral) In case you weren’t aware already, recruiters use LinkedIn to find, qualify, and engage with talent for open positions. I can’t confirm an actual statistic, but one study reported in 2016 that 84% of recruiters use […]
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How to Stay on the Same Side when Negotiating Salary
Everyone’s only out for themselves. It’s a dog-eat-dog world. Maybe that’s what you have been taught. And if you bought it, you will see evidence reinforcing it everywhere. You believe it, and so it is your reality. If so, the techniques I share in this blog are not for you. If you struggle to give […]
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10 Steps to Being the ONE Who Gets the Offer: Avoid “Bland Brand”
Most people don’t get the job. Only one. How do you set yourself up to be that one from the get-go? It’s your brand. This isn’t just a buzzword, and it’s not something created out of thin air. In fact, you have one whether you are intentional about it or not. Only, if you haven’t […]
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Step 3 to a Happy Career: Freedom!
Are the people you deem as successful really free? The answer may surprise you. Freedom, by definition, means unrestrained, able to do as one chooses. Some of the most successful people are severely accountable to many people, and while they may have power to make decisions, they have to make them under heavy constraints with […]
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Step 2 to Career Happiness
Some people grow up believing that they can do anything. Some people have parents that reinforce this belief. When you grow up under these conditions, you develop a very friendly perception of the world. You perceive very few limits and are attuned to identifying and leveraging resources to achieve goals. You are apt to try things […]
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What Career Did You Decide Was “Too Hard to Break Into?”
This week I just wanted to share a brief notice about a trend that is way too prevalent. People decide that their dream career is unobtainable. Just because– not because they did the research, crunched the numbers, interviewed people in that job to see how they got there, or even checked the LinkedIn profiles […]